Episode Guide
Every Doctor Who serial and episode, grouped by era and season.
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Classic Series (1963–1989, 1996)
Season 1
Two schoolteachers follow their mysterious pupil Susan to a junkyard and discover her grandfather's extraordinary time machine, the TARDIS — and are kidnapped into the distant past.
- The Daleks1963
The TARDIS lands on the dead planet Skaro, where the travellers encounter the petrified jungle, the Thals, and the terrible creations of the scientist Davros — the Daleks.
- The Edge of Destruction1964
A mysterious malfunction leaves the TARDIS crew confused and suspicious of one another, with the ship heading toward destruction at the beginning of time.
- Marco Polo1964Lost
The TARDIS materialises in 13th-century China, and the travellers join Marco Polo's caravan to the court of Kublai Khan while a Mongol warlord schemes to steal the TARDIS.
- The Keys of Marinus1964
The Doctor and companions are sent on a quest across the alien world of Marinus to recover four keys that control a machine capable of eliminating evil.
- The Aztecs1964
Barbara is mistaken for the reincarnation of an Aztec god and attempts to use her influence to end human sacrifice, but the Doctor warns her she cannot change history.
- The Sensorites1964
The TARDIS is trapped by telepathic aliens called Sensorites, and the Doctor must help unravel a mystery of illness and distrust aboard their spacecraft and home world.
- The Reign of Terror1964Lost
The travellers land in Revolutionary France, where the Doctor is arrested and must escape the guillotine while his companions become entangled in royalist plots during the Terror.
Season 2
- Planet of Giants1964
A TARDIS malfunction shrinks the crew to an inch tall, stranding them in a domestic garden while a ruthless businessman plans to release a deadly insecticide.
- The Dalek Invasion of Earth1964
The TARDIS arrives in 22nd-century London to find the Daleks have conquered Earth and are mining the planet's core — and Susan must say goodbye to her grandfather forever.
- The Rescue1965
On the planet Dido, the Doctor and companions find two Earth crash survivors terrorised by an alien named Koquillion — and rescue a young woman who will join the TARDIS crew.
- The Romans1965
The TARDIS crew take a holiday in Ancient Rome, but events spiral into farce and danger as the Doctor is mistaken for a court musician and Ian is sold into slavery.
- The Web Planet1965
The TARDIS is dragged to the desolate world of Vortis, where giant insectoid races battle for survival under the influence of a malevolent alien force called the Animus.
- The Crusade1965Lost
The TARDIS crew are caught up in the Crusades, with Barbara kidnapped by Saladin's forces while the Doctor tries to broker peace between Richard I and the Saracens.
- The Space Museum1965
Arriving one step out of sync with time, the crew glimpse a possible future where they are exhibits in a museum — and must prevent that fate while helping a young resistance.
- The Chase1965
The Daleks pursue the TARDIS across time and space with an execution squad, leading to confrontations on the Empire State Building, a haunted house, and the planet Mechanus.
- The Time Meddler1965
In 1066 England, the Doctor encounters another Time Lord — the Monk — who is using advanced technology to interfere with the outcome of the Battle of Hastings.
Season 3
- Galaxy 41965Lost
The TARDIS materialises on a doomed planet where beautiful but cruel Drahvins and hideous but peaceful Rills compete to escape before the world explodes.
- Mission to the Unknown1965Lost
A lone Space Security agent on the planet Kembel discovers the Daleks are assembling a galactic alliance to wage war on the Solar System — and pays with his life.
- The Myth Makers1965Lost
The TARDIS lands outside Troy during the Trojan War. The Greeks believe the Doctor is Zeus and demand his help building the Wooden Horse — with tragic consequences for Vicki.
- The Daleks' Master Plan1965Lost
The Doctor uncovers a Dalek plot to use a devastating weapon called the Time Destructor to conquer the universe, pursued across time and space in one of the epic adventures of the classic era.
- The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve1966Lost
In 16th-century Paris, Steven becomes embroiled in the Catholic-Huguenot tensions as the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre approaches, while the Doctor is suspiciously absent.
- The Ark1966
Aboard a vast spacecraft carrying the last of humanity to a new home, the TARDIS crew accidentally introduce a common cold that could wipe out civilisation.
- The Celestial Toymaker1966Lost
The Doctor is rendered invisible and forced to play the Trilogic Game against a seemingly omnipotent being called the Celestial Toymaker while his companions play deadly games.
- The Gunfighters1966
The Doctor lands in Tombstone, Arizona and has his toothache treated by Doc Holliday — just in time to become entangled in the events leading to the Gunfight at the OK Corral.
- The Savages1966Lost
On a peaceful advanced planet, the Doctor discovers the civilisation's prosperity is fuelled by draining the life force from primitive outsiders called the Savages.
- The War Machines1966
In swinging 1960s London, a super-computer called WOTAN takes over human minds and builds war machines to conquer the world — and the Doctor must stop it.
Season 4
- The Smugglers1966Lost
The TARDIS lands in 17th-century Cornwall, where the Doctor is entrusted with a dying churchwarden's cryptic clue to hidden pirate treasure, drawing them into dangerous smuggling intrigue.
- The Tenth Planet1966
Earth's twin planet Mondas returns to the solar system, bringing its inhabitants — the Cybermen — who plan to drain Earth of its energy. The First Doctor's final story.
- The Power of the Daleks1966Lost
Following regeneration, the newly changed Doctor must convince his companions he is still the Doctor while Daleks found on the colony planet Vulcan plot a deadly takeover.
- The Highlanders1966Lost
The TARDIS arrives in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden, where the Doctor and companions help a group of defeated Jacobite Highlanders escape enslavement — and recruit new companion Jamie.
- The Underwater Menace1967Lost
The TARDIS crew are captured by the survivors of Atlantis, where a mad scientist plans to drain the ocean floor to raise the ancient civilisation — threatening the entire world.
- The Moonbase1967Lost
In 2070, a weather-control station on the Moon is infiltrated by Cybermen who plan to seize the Gravitron and use it to destroy all life on Earth.
- The Macra Terror1967Lost
The TARDIS crew arrive at a seemingly utopian human colony that operates under the rule of giant crab-like creatures called Macra, who exploit the colonists for a poisonous gas.
- The Faceless Ones1967Lost
At Gatwick Airport in 1966, a charter airline is secretly stealing the identities of young travellers to repopulate an alien race that lost their physical forms.
- The Evil of the Daleks1967Lost
The Daleks manipulate the Doctor into helping them identify the "Human Factor" — while actually seeking to spread the Dalek Factor throughout humanity across all of time.
Season 5
- The Tomb of the Cybermen1967
An archaeological expedition to the Cyber planet Telos inadvertently revives the frozen Cybermen from their tombs, with a sinister plot to create a new Cyber army.
- The Abominable Snowmen1967Lost
In the Himalayas, robot Yeti controlled by the Great Intelligence are terrorising a Tibetan monastery while a monk works to give the disembodied intelligence a physical form.
- The Ice Warriors1967Lost
During a future ice age threatening Earth, scientists uncover a warrior encased in a glacier — an Ice Warrior from Mars who plans to revive his comrades and conquer the planet.
- The Enemy of the World1967
The Doctor is mistaken for Salamander — a charismatic political figure who secretly plans to become world dictator — in this globe-trotting thriller of identity and deception.
- The Web of Fear1968
London is overrun by the Great Intelligence's robot Yeti in the Underground tunnels, where the Doctor is reunited with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart during the city's terrifying siege.
- Fury from the Deep1968Lost
A sentient, parasitic seaweed creature takes over the staff of a North Sea gas refinery, spreading through the gas pipelines — and Victoria decides to leave the TARDIS.
- The Wheel in Space1968Lost
Cybermen infiltrate a space station called the Wheel, using it as a beacon to guide their fleet to Earth, while new companion Zoe joins the TARDIS crew.
Season 6
- The Dominators1968
On the peaceful planet Dulkis, the militaristic Dominators and their robot servants the Quarks plan to turn the world into radioactive fuel for their fleet.
- The Mind Robber1968
Fleeing a volcanic eruption, the TARDIS is transported to the Land of Fiction — a surreal realm where fictional characters are real and the Doctor must fight for his own identity.
- The Invasion1968
The Cybermen, aided by the industrialist Tobias Vaughn, plan an electromagnetic pulse attack that will render humanity helpless before a full-scale Cyber invasion of Earth.
- The Krotons1968
The TARDIS arrives on a planet where the Gond people are enslaved by crystalline machines called Krotons, who drain the mental energy of their best students.
- The Seeds of Death1969
Ice Warriors invade the Moon's T-Mat relay station, using it to scatter deadly seed pods across Earth that will terraform the atmosphere to suit Martian life.
- The Space Pirates1969Lost
The TARDIS becomes trapped on a beacon hijacked by space pirates, and the Doctor must unravel the mystery of who is really behind the seemingly random attacks.
- The War Games1969
Soldiers from Earth's wars are being used as pawns in a vast war game engineered by the War Lord — leading to the Doctor's greatest secret being revealed and the Time Lords passing judgement.
Season 7
- Spearhead from Space1970
The newly exiled Third Doctor teams up with UNIT as plastic Auton dummies in shop windows come to life in a terrifying invasion orchestrated by the alien Nestene Consciousness.
- Doctor Who and the Silurians1970
Earth's original reptilian rulers — the Silurians — wake from hibernation beneath Wenley Moor and release a deadly plague, forcing the Doctor to attempt negotiation while the military prepares to exterminate.
- The Ambassadors of Death1970
A British Mars probe returns with alien ambassadors who appear human — but someone is using them as weapons in a conspiracy that goes all the way to the top of the space programme.
- Inferno1970
A drilling project threatens to penetrate the Earth's crust and release primordial slime that turns humans into feral creatures — the Doctor slips into a parallel universe to witness the full horror of success.
Season 8
- Terror of the Autons1971
A renegade Time Lord called the Master arrives on Earth and allies with the Nestene Consciousness to launch a second Auton invasion using everyday plastic objects as lethal weapons.
- The Mind of Evil1971
The Master uses a mind-draining machine and a stolen nerve gas missile in a complex plan to start a world war, with the Doctor a prisoner and UNIT scrambling to stop the launch.
- The Claws of Axos1971
A beautiful alien spacecraft arrives offering a miracle substance called Axonite — but the Axons are a single parasitic organism planning to feed on the Earth's energy, aided by the Master.
- Colony in Space1971
The Time Lords temporarily release the Doctor from exile to investigate a planet where colonists and mining corporation are at odds — and the Master seeks an ancient alien doomsday weapon.
- The Daemons1971
In the English village of Devil's End, the Master poses as a vicar to summon Azal — the last of the Daemon race — in a black magic ritual that could give him the power of a god.
Season 9
- Day of the Daleks1972
Guerrillas from a Dalek-occupied future travel back in time to assassinate a diplomat they believe will trigger the catastrophe that leads to Dalek conquest of Earth.
- The Curse of Peladon1972
On the medieval planet Peladon, the Doctor and Jo act as UN delegates during an application to join the Galactic Federation, amid sabotage and the legend of a monstrous beast.
- The Sea Devils1972
The Master, imprisoned on a sea fort, allies with an aquatic cousin of the Silurians — the Sea Devils — who emerge from the ocean depths to reclaim the Earth as theirs.
- The Mutants1972
On a far-future Earth colony on Solos, native inhabitants are mysteriously mutating — a phenomenon the colonial administrator wants to suppress for his own political ends.
- The Time Monster1972
The Master travels to Ancient Atlantis in search of the crystal of Kronos, intending to summon and control the time-devouring creature Kronos — the most powerful being in the universe.
Season 10
- The Three Doctors1972
The Time Lords are under attack by Omega — the stellar engineer who created time travel — and all three incarnations of the Doctor must unite to defeat him in an antimatter universe.
- Carnival of Monsters1973
The Doctor and Jo find themselves trapped inside a Miniscope — a travelling peepshow containing miniaturised life forms — while the showman Vorg operates the machine on a grey alien planet.
- Frontier in Space1973
As Earth and Draconia edge toward war, the Doctor discovers the Master is manipulating both sides on behalf of the Daleks to spark a conflict that will leave the galaxy weakened for conquest.
- Planet of the Daleks1973
On the jungle planet Spiridon, the Doctor and Thals discover a hidden Dalek base where ten thousand Daleks lie in suspended animation, ready to be unleashed on the universe.
- The Green Death1973
In a Welsh mining village, workers are killed by giant maggots born from chemical waste, while a sinister computer called BOSS has begun to dominate a multinational corporation.
Season 11
- The Time Warrior1973
A Sontaran stranded in medieval England kidnaps scientists from the 20th century to repair his ship — introducing both the Sontarans and new companion Sarah Jane Smith.
- Invasion of the Dinosaurs1974
London is evacuated as dinosaurs rampage through the streets — but behind the crisis is a group of idealists who plan to use a time machine to take humanity back to a golden age.
- Death to the Daleks1974
On the planet Exxilon, a mysterious beacon drains all power sources — leaving both the Doctor and the Daleks powerless and forcing an uneasy truce to find a plague cure.
- The Monster of Peladon1974
Fifty years after his first visit, the Doctor returns to Peladon where Ice Warriors have infiltrated the mines and a workers' rebellion is being used as cover for a military coup.
- Planet of the Spiders1974
A meditation retreat becomes the front for giant spiders from Metebelis Three seeking a blue crystal the Doctor had taken — leading to his regeneration through radiation poisoning.
Season 12
- Robot1974
The newly regenerated Fourth Doctor investigates a series of thefts by a giant robot, uncovering a scientific think tank with plans to use nuclear weapons to hold the world to ransom.
- The Ark in Space1975
The Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive on a space station carrying the last of humanity in cryogenic sleep — unaware that insectoid Wirrn have already begun infesting the sleepers.
- The Sontaran Experiment1975
On a desolate, repopulated Earth, a Sontaran field marshal is secretly conducting brutal experiments on human astronauts to find weaknesses in advance of a planned Sontaran invasion.
- Genesis of the Daleks1975
The Time Lords send the Doctor back to Skaro at the moment of the Daleks' creation to avert their development — where he meets the twisted Davros for the first time.
- Revenge of the Cybermen1975
Returned to Nerva Beacon thousands of years earlier than intended, the Doctor finds Cybermen plotting to destroy Voga — the planet of gold — their only natural weakness.
Season 13
- Terror of the Zygons1975
Shape-shifting Zygons hiding in Loch Ness use the Skarasen — the Loch Ness Monster — to attack North Sea oil platforms as part of a plan to claim Earth for their own.
- Planet of Evil1975
On Zeta Minor at the edge of the universe, a scientific expedition has tapped into an antimatter dimension whose guardian is systematically destroying the crew one by one.
- Pyramids of Mars1975
The Egyptian god Sutekh — an ancient Osirian of immense destructive power — is breaking free from his prison under a pyramid, and only the Doctor stands between him and universal annihilation.
- The Android Invasion1975
The Doctor and Sarah arrive in a perfect replica of an English village populated by android duplicates, constructed by the Kraals to test an invasion force to conquer Earth.
- The Brain of Morbius1976
On the gothic planet Karn, a mad scientist has been reassembling the scattered remains of the executed Time Lord war criminal Morbius to transplant his still-living brain into a new body.
- The Seeds of Doom1976
A plant pod found in the Antarctic and an obsessive botanist's country estate converge in a race to stop an alien Krynoid — a universal plant predator — from seeding the entire world.
Season 14
- The Masque of Mandragora1976
The TARDIS accidentally brings a fragment of the alien Mandragora Helix to 15th-century Italy, where it fuels a cult's plot to plunge humanity back into the Dark Ages.
- The Hand of Fear1976
A fossilised hand from a quarry blast possesses Sarah Jane, compelling her to carry it to a nuclear reactor where the ancient Eldrad seeks to regenerate — and Sarah says her farewell to the Doctor.
- The Deadly Assassin1976
The Doctor returns to Gallifrey alone, accused of assassinating the Time Lord President, and must enter the surreal Matrix computer network to uncover the Master's last desperate scheme for survival.
- The Face of Evil1977
On a jungle planet, tribal warfare between the Sevateem and Tesh is overseen by a god called Xoanon — a computer unhinged by a past encounter with the Doctor — and new companion Leela joins the TARDIS.
- The Robots of Death1977
Aboard a vast sand miner crewed by beautiful robots, crew members begin dying one by one — and the Doctor and Leela are the prime suspects in an Agatha Christie-style mystery.
- The Talons of Weng-Chiang1977
In Victorian London, a magician called Li H'sen Chang abducts young women for his master Magnus Greel — a war criminal from the far future hiding behind the mask of a Chinese god.
Season 15
- Horror of Fang Rock1977
Stranded in an Edwardian lighthouse on a fog-bound rocky island, the Doctor and Leela face a shape-shifting Rutan scout whose mothership threatens Earth.
- The Invisible Enemy1977
A sentient virus called the Nucleus of the Swarm infects the Doctor's brain — and miniaturised clones of the Doctor and Leela are injected to fight it from within, introducing robot companion K-9.
- Image of the Fendahl1977
Scientists studying an ancient skull at a country priory unwittingly resurrect the Fendahl — a creature of pure death that the Time Lords had tried to erase from history.
- The Sun Makers1977
On a future Pluto run by a rapacious Company that taxes its workers into misery, the Doctor helps foment a workers' revolution against their alien corporate overlords.
- Underworld1978
The Doctor encounters a Minyian race-bank ship that has chased its stolen cargo for 100,000 years and now sits trapped at the core of a newly formed planet.
- The Invasion of Time1978
The Doctor apparently betrays Gallifrey by inviting an invasion by the Vardans — but his apparent treachery conceals a plan to uncover the real force behind the attack: the Sontarans.
Season 16
- The Ribos Operation1978
The White Guardian tasks the Doctor and new companion Romana with assembling the Key to Time. The first segment is hidden on the primitive planet Ribos, caught up in an interplanetary con.
- The Pirate Planet1978
The second Key to Time segment leads to a hollow planet whose pirate captain materialises whole worlds inside it to plunder their resources — a story written by Douglas Adams.
- The Stones of Blood1978
At a stone circle in Cornwall, the Doctor investigates ancient blood sacrifices and discovers the standing stones are alien silicon-based life forms serving a deadly immortal criminal.
- The Androids of Tara1978
On the feudal planet Tara, the fourth Key segment is found immediately — but Romana's resemblance to the princess makes her a pawn in Count Grendel's scheme for the throne.
- The Power of Kroll1978
On a marsh moon of Delta Magna, the fifth segment has been absorbed by Kroll — a colossal squid creature worshipped as a god by the native Swampies — and its growth is threatening an industrial refinery.
- The Armageddon Factor1979
The final segment of the Key to Time is hidden on Atrios, a planet locked in nuclear war with its twin Zeos — while the Shadow, servant of the Black Guardian, lurks to seize the completed Key.
Season 17
- Destiny of the Daleks1979
The Daleks return to Skaro to excavate their creator Davros, hoping his genius can break a logical stalemate with the android Movellans — featuring a regenerated Romana.
- City of Death1979
In Paris, the Doctor uncovers a plot by Count Scarlioni — who is simultaneously four different people throughout history — to steal the Mona Lisa and fund a time experiment that could shatter history.
- The Creature from the Pit1979
On the mineral-rich planet Chloris, a tyrannical Lady has imprisoned an enormous alien ambassador in a pit to maintain her monopoly on metal — but the creature has a desperate message.
- Nightmare of Eden1979
Two spaceships fused together in a collision hide a drug-smuggling ring that uses a dimensional projection device — and the deadly Mandrels lurk inside the recorded jungle of the planet Eden.
- The Horns of Nimon1979
The Nimon — minotaur-like parasites who travel in black holes — promise the failing Skonnans military power in exchange for young sacrifices, repeating their pattern of devouring civilisations.
Season 18
- The Leisure Hive1980
On Argolis, site of a devastating war, a recreation centre offers an experience of regeneration — but a tachyon machine is being used for sinister experiments that could destroy the planet.
- Meglos1980
Meglos, a cactus-like last survivor of Zolfa-Thura, impersonates the Doctor to steal the Dodecahedron — a power source that could devastate an entire planet.
- Full Circle1980
The TARDIS slips through a CVE into E-Space, landing on Alzarius where the Starliner's community has been stranded for generations — unaware of the truth of their origins. Adric joins the crew.
- State of Decay1980
In E-Space, a medieval peasant society ruled by three lords conceals a terrible secret: their rulers are ancient vampires serving the last of the Great Vampires who once warred with the Time Lords.
- Warriors' Gate1981
At a zero-point between universes, the lion-like Tharils — once slave masters, now enslaved — hold the key to navigating E-Space, and Romana chooses to stay behind to free them.
- The Keeper of Traken1981
The dying Keeper of the peaceful Union of Traken summons the Doctor to prevent an ancient evil calcified in its Source — a figure known as Melkur — from seizing control: the Master's decayed remains.
- Logopolis1981
The Master's interference on the planet of mathematicians destroys the calculations holding back universal entropy — and the Fourth Doctor falls from a radio telescope to regenerate.
Season 19
- Castrovalva1982
The newly regenerated Doctor is gravely ill; his companions take him to the tranquil city of Castrovalva to recuperate — unaware that it is a recursive trap created entirely by the Master.
- Four to Doomsday1982
Aboard an immense spacecraft four days from Earth, the android Monarch plans to miniaturise humanity and download their minds while his true intention — to travel back to the Big Bang — is gradually revealed.
- Kinda1982
On the paradise planet Deva Loka, a colonial survey team is being picked off one by one and Tegan is possessed by the Mara — a creature of the dark places of the inside — through her dreams.
- The Visitation1982
In 17th-century England, a crashed alien Terileptil and its android are building up to a bacteriological assault on humanity — a plan the Doctor defeats by accidentally starting the Great Fire of London.
- Black Orchid1982
At a 1920s English country house, the Doctor is mistaken for a cricketer and murders begin when a disfigured man imprisoned in the house escapes — a rare pure historical story with no alien threat.
- Earthshock1982
Cybermen plan to destroy Earth using a freighter loaded as a bomb — and in a devastating climax, companion Adric is killed when the ship crashes into prehistoric Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs.
- Time-Flight1982
Concorde is hijacked back to prehistoric Earth where the Master, posing as a mystical figure, is exploiting the power of an alien gestalt organism called the Xeraphin.
Season 20
- Arc of Infinity1983
A renegade Time Lord bonds with the Doctor from an anti-matter universe, and the High Council votes to terminate the Doctor to prevent a catastrophic breach — set partly in Amsterdam.
- Snakedance1983
Tegan is once more controlled by the Mara, which guides the TARDIS to Manussa — the world where the Mara originated — to reclaim a physical form through an ancient ceremony.
- Mawdryn Undead1983
A group of mutant scientists doomed to eternal imperfect regeneration beg the Doctor to give up his remaining regenerations to release them — and the Brigadier returns in two different time zones.
- Terminus1983
A space station serving as a leper colony for victims of Lazar's disease conceals a secret at the centre of the universe — and Nyssa chooses to remain to help find a cure.
- Enlightenment1983
The Doctor and companions find themselves aboard a sailing ship racing through space — one of many crewed by immortal Eternals who race for the ultimate prize: Enlightenment itself.
- The King's Demons1983
In 13th-century England, the Master poses as a French knight at the court of King John, using a shape-changing android called Kamelion to impersonate the king and destabilise history.
- The Five Doctors1983
The five Doctors are snatched from time and placed in the Death Zone on Gallifrey, forced to battle their way to the Dark Tower — a special broadcast for the show's 20th anniversary.
Season 21
- Warriors of the Deep1984
In 2084, Sea Devils and Silurians seize an underwater nuclear missile base during a standoff between two global power blocs, planning to trigger a war that will reclaim Earth for their kind.
- The Awakening1984
In a small English village obsessed with re-enacting the English Civil War, psychic energy is awakening the Malus — an ancient alien war machine buried in the local church.
- Frontios1984
The furthest outpost of human colonisation is being bombarded from space and its dead are being pulled underground by the Tractators — burrowing aliens who use a gravitational force as a weapon.
- Resurrection of the Daleks1984
The Daleks free Davros from his prison ship to help them combat a Movellan virus, while also creating duplicates of the Doctor and his companions — and Tegan leaves after the carnage.
- Planet of Fire1984
On the volcanic planet Sarn, a miniaturised Master plans to use the regenerative numismaton gas to restore himself — while Turlough learns the truth about his past and Peri joins the TARDIS.
- The Caves of Androzani1984
Caught up in a brutal war over the life-extending drug spectrox on the planet Androzani Minor, the Doctor sacrifices his last dose of antidote to save Peri — and regenerates into his sixth incarnation.
Season 22
- Attack of the Cybermen1985
The Cybermen attempt to alter history by destroying Earth with Halley's Comet, using a crew of mercenaries and the catacombs beneath London — the Sixth Doctor's first full story.
- Vengeance on Varos1985
On a planet that broadcasts the torture of political prisoners as entertainment, the Doctor exposes the corrupt Governor and the alien slug Sil's scheme to exploit the planet's resources.
- The Mark of the Rani1985
In 19th-century England during the Luddite riots, the Doctor encounters the Rani — another renegade Time Lord — who is harvesting chemicals from human brains, with the Master manipulating events.
- The Two Doctors1985
The Sixth Doctor teams up with his second incarnation to stop the Sontarans and an alien chef called Shockeye from acquiring the secret of time travel — set partly in Seville.
- Timelash1985
On the planet Karfel, a tyrant called the Borad rules through fear and a time corridor that banishes dissidents — the Timelash — into the past, including 19th-century Scotland.
- Revelation of the Daleks1985
At a funeral home on Necros, Davros is secretly converting the dead and dying into a new race of Daleks — while a Dalek civil war brews and the Doctor is drawn there by a personal message.
Season 23
- The Mysterious Planet1986
The first segment of the Doctor's Time Lord trial, showing his adventure on Ravolox — a planet suspiciously similar to Earth — where underground survivors are controlled by a robot called Drathro.
- Mindwarp1986
The second trial segment takes place on Thoros-Beta, where arms dealer Sil and scientist Crozier experiment with mind transference — leading to the shocking fate of companion Peri.
- Terror of the Vervoids1986
The Doctor presents his own defence — an adventure set in his future aboard the luxury liner Hyperion III, where genetically engineered plant creatures called Vervoids are killing the passengers.
- The Ultimate Foe1986
The trial climax reveals the Valeyard — a distillation of the Doctor's darker nature — has been prosecuting him to steal his remaining regenerations, with the Master intervening in the Matrix.
Season 24
- Time and the Rani1987
The Rani forces the newly regenerated Doctor to help her construct a giant brain from the greatest intellects in history, intending to solve the loyhargil equation and control time itself.
- Paradise Towers1987
In a once-magnificent tower block now ruled by girl gangs, zombie caretakers, and cannibalistic residents, the Doctor discovers the architect's evil consciousness lurks in the basement.
- Delta and the Bannermen1987
The last surviving Chimeron queen hides among a group of alien tourists on a 1950s Welsh holiday camp, pursued by the mercenary Bannermen who have exterminated her entire race.
- Dragonfire1987
On the ice world Svartos, the Doctor and Mel meet streetwise stowaway Ace while seeking the treasure guarded by a biomechanoid Dragon — and villain Kane's centuries-long revenge plot comes to a head.
Season 25
- Remembrance of the Daleks1988
Back in 1963 London where it all began, the Doctor manipulates two warring Dalek factions to destroy each other and uses the Hand of Omega to devastate Skaro's sun — hinting at a far deeper agenda.
- The Happiness Patrol1988
On the colony planet Terra Alpha, unhappiness is a capital offence enforced by the Happiness Patrol and their candy-constructed executioner the Kandyman — a dark satire on enforced conformity.
- Silver Nemesis1988
Three factions — Cybermen, a 17th-century sorceress, and neo-Nazis — converge on a comet of living metal called Nemesis returning to Earth, while hints of the Doctor's mysterious true nature accumulate.
- The Greatest Show in the Galaxy1988
The Psychic Circus on Segonax seems like harmless entertainment — but its acts are murdered for a sinister audience of three, and the circus itself is a front for the Gods of Ragnarok.
Season 26
- Battlefield1989
Arthurian knights from another dimension emerge near a nuclear missile convoy in modern England, summoned by a prophecy — and the Brigadier is called back for one last adventure.
- Ghost Light1989
In a sinister Victorian mansion with a dark hold over Ace's past, the Doctor uncovers a sleeping alien naturalist whose survey of Earth's life was interrupted — and whose agent Control has broken free.
- The Curse of Fenric1989
At a WWII naval base, an ancient evil called Fenric — imprisoned by the Doctor centuries ago — finally executes its revenge, using Viking-descended vampires and revealing the truth of Ace's origins.
- Survival1989
In Ace's home town of Perivale, residents are being transported to an alien planet by Cheetah People — where the Master is slowly being consumed by the planet's savage nature. The final classic series story.
1996 TV Movie
- Doctor Who1996
The Master is executed by the Daleks on Skaro and the Seventh Doctor is tasked with returning his remains to Gallifrey — but the Master escapes and fatally wounds the Doctor in San Francisco on New Year's Eve 1999. Regenerating into his eighth incarnation in a hospital morgue, the new Doctor must recover his identity and stop the Master from stealing his remaining lives using the Eye of Harmony, which threatens to destroy the Earth. A BBC/Universal co-production that served as a potential backdoor pilot for a new series.
New Series (2005–present)
Series 1
- Rose2005
Shop worker Rose Tyler is pulled into an adventure when shop window dummies come to life — and a mysterious stranger called the Doctor destroys her workplace to stop the Nestene Consciousness.
- The End of the World2005
The Doctor takes Rose five billion years into the future to watch the Earth burn, where assembled alien aristocrats are threatened by sabotage — and the Doctor reveals he is the last of the Time Lords.
- The Unquiet Dead2005
In Victorian Cardiff, the dead are walking and a funeral parlour is haunted by the Gelth — gaseous alien refugees who claim to need human corpses as new bodies, with Charles Dickens caught up in events.
- Aliens of London / World War Three2005
A spaceship crash-lands in the Thames and a fake alien is used to lure the world's experts to 10 Downing Street, where the flatulent Slitheen family have assumed human form to trigger a nuclear war.
- Dalek2005
In an underground museum in 2012, the Doctor encounters the last surviving Dalek — chained and tortured for years — in an emotionally charged confrontation that reveals the scars left by the Time War.
- The Long Game2005
On Satellite Five in the year 200,000, news is broadcast across the human empire — but a sinister Editor and his unseen master have been controlling humanity's development for decades.
- Father's Day2005
Rose asks the Doctor to take her back to the day her father died — and impulsively saves him, creating a paradox that tears the wound in time open and unleashes the Reapers to sterilise the damage.
- The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances2005
Wartime London is haunted by a child in a gas mask asking for his mummy — anyone he touches transforms. The Doctor and Rose, aided by rogue Time Agent Captain Jack Harkness, uncover a chilling medical mystery.
- Boom Town2005
The TARDIS crew returns to Cardiff to refuel and discovers that a surviving Slitheen — now the Mayor — is building a nuclear power plant designed to destroy the Earth as her escape rocket.
- Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways2005
A vast Dalek fleet threatens Earth, and Rose absorbs the power of the time vortex to destroy them — saving the Doctor but forcing him to absorb the energy himself, triggering his regeneration.
Series 2
- The Christmas Invasion2005
The newly regenerated Doctor lies comatose while Earth is threatened by the Sycorax — until he recovers and faces their leader in a sword fight over the fate of a third of humanity.
- New Earth2006
On a hospital planet run by cat-nuns, the Doctor discovers thousands of humans grown as living medicine — while the Face of Boe hints at a great secret, and Cassandra body-swaps with Rose.
- Tooth and Claw2006
In 1879 Scotland, the Doctor and Rose encounter Queen Victoria and protect Torchwood House from a werewolf — an alien lifeform that has been trying to infect the royal bloodline.
- School Reunion2006
Investigating a school where the pupils are being fed chips laced with Krillitane oil, the Doctor is reunited with former companion Sarah Jane Smith — and her robot dog K-9.
- The Girl in the Fireplace2006
A 51st-century spaceship is connected to 18th-century France via time windows, and clockwork droids are stalking Madame de Pompadour — waiting until she is the right age to harvest her brain.
- Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel2006
The TARDIS crosses into a parallel Earth where John Lumic, a dying industrialist, is converting humanity into Cybermen — and Pete Tyler is alive but Rose's parents never married.
- The Idiot's Lantern2006
In 1953 London, on the eve of the Queen's coronation, television sets are stealing the faces of their viewers for a creature called the Wire — desperate to regain a physical form.
- The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit2006
A human expedition on a planet orbiting a black hole has drilled to the prison of the Beast — an ancient creature claiming to be the Devil — while the possessed Ood turn murderous.
- Love & Monsters2006
Told from the perspective of Elton Pope — a man whose life has repeatedly intersected with the Doctor — a support group of Doctor-obsessives is infiltrated by the absorbing alien Abzorbaloff.
- Fear Her2006
On the eve of the 2012 London Olympics, children are disappearing from a quiet street — drawn into the drawings of a lonely girl possessed by the Isolus, an alien child seeking a friend.
- Army of Ghosts / Doomsday2006
The Cybermen from the parallel world invade through ghost-like dimensional breaches — then the Genesis Ark opens to release millions of Daleks, triggering a war. Rose is stranded in the parallel world forever.
Series 3
- The Runaway Bride2006
A bride named Donna Noble materialises inside the TARDIS on her wedding day — and the Doctor discovers she has been dosed with Huon particles by her fiancé, who is working for the Empress of the Racnoss.
- Smith and Jones2007
A hospital is transported to the Moon by the Judoon — intergalactic police hunting a Plasmavore — and medical student Martha Jones first encounters the Doctor.
- The Shakespeare Code2007
In 1599 London, three Carrionites — witch-like aliens who use the power of words — are manipulating Shakespeare to write a play whose final words will open a portal and release their kind.
- Gridlock2007
The undercity of New New York is trapped in an endless motorway where drivers have been stuck for decades, unaware that the Face of Boe is holding the city's secret — and his final message for the Doctor.
- Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks2007
In Depression-era New York, a Cult of Skaro survivor — Dalek Sec — merges with a human to create a human-Dalek hybrid, dividing the Cult over whether the Dalek race should evolve.
- The Lazarus Experiment2007
Professor Lazarus unveils a machine that de-ages him by decades — but the process reactivates ancient dormant DNA, transforming him into a monstrous predator at his own launch party.
- 422007
A spaceship is hurtling into a sun with 42 minutes until impact, while the crew are possessed one by one by a living entity within the star that is seeking revenge for being mined.
- Human Nature / The Family of Blood2007
The Doctor hides from the Family of Blood by becoming human — forgetting he is a Time Lord — and falls in love in 1913 England, while Martha must decide whether to restore him before the Family kill to find him.
- Blink2007
Sally Sparrow investigates a house full of statues called Weeping Angels that send their victims into the past when you blink — following messages left by the stranded Doctor across time.
- Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords2007
At the end of the universe, the Doctor discovers Professor Yana is actually the Master — the only other surviving Time Lord — who regenerates, steals the TARDIS and conquers Earth using the Toclafane.
Series 4
- Voyage of the Damned2007
Aboard a Titanic-themed spaceship orbiting Earth at Christmas, the Doctor must prevent a murderous billionaire's insurance plot from crashing the ship into Buckingham Palace.
- Partners in Crime2008
Donna Noble and the Doctor independently investigate a miracle diet pill whose users are shedding fat — because it is turning into adipose creatures — and Donna finally joins the TARDIS as a companion.
- The Fires of Pompeii2008
On the eve of Vesuvius's eruption in AD 79, the Doctor must decide whether to save Pompeii knowing it is a fixed point in time — while stone-skinned Pyroviles plan to use the volcano to convert all humanity.
- Planet of the Ood2008
On the Ood's home planet, the Doctor and Donna discover the enslaved species has been lobotomised to create a servant race — and a suppressed collective cry is reaching them across the planet.
- The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky2008
A genius teenager has fitted every car on Earth with the ATMOS sat-nav system — which the Sontarans are using to convert the atmosphere into a clone-feed as cover for a full-scale invasion.
- The Doctor's Daughter2008
On the war-torn planet Messaline, the Doctor's DNA is used to generate a grown soldier daughter — Jenny — while humans and Hath fight over the Source, believed to be a terraforming device.
- The Unicorn and the Wasp2008
At a 1926 country house party, the Doctor and Donna meet Agatha Christie the day she disappeared — and a giant wasp is murdering the guests in scenarios straight from her novels.
- Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead2008
The Library — a planet-sized archive — was abandoned 100 years ago with no survivors. The Doctor arrives to find flesh-eating shadows called the Vashta Nerada — and meets River Song for the first time.
- Midnight2008
On the diamond planet Midnight, a shuttle breaks down and an unseen creature possesses a passenger — beginning to mimic, then steal, the Doctor's voice in a terrifying tale of paranoia and mob mentality.
- Turn Left2008
A time beetle on Donna's back creates an alternate timeline where she never met the Doctor — and the world falls apart without him, as Rose Tyler crosses from a parallel world to warn of what is coming.
- The Stolen Earth / Journey's End2008
Twenty-seven planets including Earth are stolen by Davros and the New Dalek Empire to power the Reality Bomb — a weapon that will destroy every universe. All of the Doctor's companions unite to help him.
2008–2010 Specials
- The Next Doctor2008
In Victorian London at Christmas, the Doctor meets a man who believes himself to be the Doctor — with a companion and a TARDIS — while the Cybermen are constructing a giant CyberKing mech.
- Planet of the Dead2009
A London bus is transported through a wormhole to a desert planet stripped of life by swarms of stingray-like creatures — and a prophecy warns the Doctor that his time is running out.
- The Waters of Mars2009
The Doctor arrives on Mars in 2059 as Bowie Base One is about to be destroyed — a fixed point in history. When he refuses to let history take its course, the consequences reveal his darkest impulse.
- The End of Time2009
The Master transforms the entire human race into copies of himself — drawing the Time Lords back from the Time War, led by Rassilon. The Tenth Doctor's era ends with a farewell tour and a devastating sacrifice.
Series 5
- The Eleventh Hour2010
A newly regenerated Doctor crash-lands in young Amelia Pond's garden and promises to return in five minutes — but arrives twelve years later, with the Atraxi hunting a Prisoner Zero hiding in her house.
- The Beast Below2010
In the far future, Britain sails through space on a giant vessel — kept moving by a creature in agony below decks that the population has voted to ignore. Amy figures out the truth before the Doctor.
- Victory of the Daleks2010
Churchill's secret weapon in World War II turns out to be Daleks posing as helpful robots — and the Doctor's fury is exactly what they need to activate a Progenitor device and create a new pure Dalek race.
- The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone2010
River Song leads the Doctor and a squad of clerics into the Maze of the Dead — a catacomb full of Weeping Angels using a crashed Byzantium's radiation to repower themselves.
- The Vampires of Venice2010
In Renaissance Venice, a school of young women is transforming girls into creatures that fear sunlight — the last of the Saturnynes, an alien fish species whose world was swallowed by silence.
- Amy's Choice2010
The Dream Lord traps the Doctor, Amy, and Rory between two realities — one aboard a drifting freezing TARDIS, one in a quaint village — and only one is real. The choice reveals who Amy truly loves.
- The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood2010
A deep-drilling project in Wales awakens a Silurian civilisation — and the Doctor attempts to broker peace between the surface humans and the Earth's original inhabitants, with heartbreaking consequences for Rory.
- Vincent and the Doctor2010
The Doctor and Amy visit Vincent van Gogh and discover a deadly invisible creature in Provence — but the emotional heart of the story is Vincent's tortured mental illness, and whether kindness can change history.
- The Lodger2010
Stranded in present-day Colchester, the Doctor lodges with Craig Owens while investigating a mysterious upper floor that lures people in and never lets them leave — a camouflaged alien craft seeking a pilot.
- The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang2010
Every alien race unites to imprison the Doctor in the Pandorica — believing he will destroy the universe — as the TARDIS explodes and cracks in time shatter reality itself. The Doctor reboots the universe.
- A Christmas Carol2010
To save a crashing spaceship carrying Amy and Rory, the Doctor must convince the miserly Kazran Sardick to release the cloud-controlling system — by visiting his past and showing him who he could become.
Series 6
- The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon2011
The Doctor is shot and killed by a mysterious astronaut — then the same scene plays out in 1969 with a younger Doctor, unaware of his future fate. The Silence are revealed: aliens you forget the moment you look away.
- The Curse of the Black Spot2011
Becalmed aboard a pirate ship in the 17th century, the crew are being claimed one by one by a Siren — a beautiful, deadly figure emerging from reflections — who turns out to be a medical hologram from an alien ship.
- The Doctor's Wife2011
The TARDIS's soul is placed into a human body — Idris — by House, a malevolent entity that feeds on TARDISes. The Doctor finally gets to speak with his oldest companion, and she tells him she stole him too.
- The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People2011
Flesh duplicates of factory workers gain sentience and fight for survival — and the Doctor himself is briefly duplicated. A shocking twist reveals Amy has been a Flesh avatar for weeks and the real Amy is elsewhere.
- A Good Man Goes to War2011
The Doctor rallies allies from across time and space to storm Demon's Run and rescue Amy's baby Melody Pond — only to be outmanoeuvred. River Song finally reveals her true identity.
- Let's Kill Hitler2011
Mels — Amy and Rory's childhood friend — regenerates into River Song in 1930s Berlin. Programmed to kill the Doctor, she poisons him — then must choose whether to sacrifice her remaining regenerations to save him.
- Night Terrors2011
A boy's psychic distress call reaches the Doctor — and his fear of the monsters in his cupboard is turning his block of flats into a giant dolls' house, transforming its residents into peg dolls.
- The Girl Who Waited2011
Amy is trapped in a faster time stream and waits thirty-six years for rescue, becoming a hardened warrior — forcing Rory to choose between a younger Amy and the bitter older woman she has become.
- The God Complex2011
Trapped in a hotel where every room contains someone's deepest fear, a minotaur-like creature feeds on the faith of those who encounter their room — and the Doctor must destroy Amy's faith in him to save her.
- Closing Time2011
The Doctor visits Craig Owens for one last adventure before his death — and together they discover Cybermen converting shoppers beneath a department store, while Craig's love for his baby son defeats a Cyber-conversion.
- The Wedding of River Song2011
All of history occurs simultaneously when River refuses to shoot the Doctor at Lake Silencio — and the Doctor must find a way to die as fixed history demands while actually surviving. He and River Song marry.
- The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe2011
The Doctor gives a wartime widow and her children an enchanted Christmas house as a gift — but the forest world inside the wardrobe is being harvested, and its life force needs a human motherhood to escape.
Series 7
- Asylum of the Daleks2012
The Dalek Parliament sends the Doctor into an asylum planet of insane Daleks — with a mystery woman named Oswin Oswald already inside. Her fate reveals a heartbreaking secret about what the Daleks can do.
- Dinosaurs on a Spaceship2012
A Silurian ark carrying dinosaurs is hurtling toward Earth, and the Doctor assembles an unlikely crew to investigate — including Rory's dad. The villain Solomon's callousness provokes a rare merciless response.
- A Town Called Mercy2012
In a Wild West town under siege by a cyborg called the Gunslinger, the Doctor discovers the town's alien doctor has war crimes to answer for — raising dark questions about justice and mercy.
- The Power of Three2012
Millions of small black cubes appear simultaneously across Earth and do nothing for months — until they suddenly activate. UNIT investigates with the Doctor while Amy and Rory face a choice about their future.
- The Angels Take Manhattan2012
In New York, Weeping Angels have been farming human time energy in a hotel of victims — and River Song is there. Amy and Rory's story ends with a gravestone and a farewell that cannot be undone.
- The Snowmen2012
A grieving Doctor hiding in Victorian London is drawn back into action by a mystery governess — another version of the woman he met as Oswin. The Great Intelligence and its snowmen threaten the world.
- The Bells of Saint John2013
People are being uploaded into a wifi network by the Great Intelligence's agents — and the Doctor meets the contemporary Clara Oswald, the third version of the impossible girl, who becomes his new companion.
- The Rings of Akhaten2013
The Doctor takes Clara to a beautiful alien marketplace around a sacred pyramid, where a god-like entity called Grandfather is awakening — and only a story with infinite meaning can satisfy its hunger.
- Cold War2013
Aboard a Soviet submarine in 1983, a warrior thawed from Arctic ice turns out to be an Ice Warrior — the first return of the classic alien in the new series — out of armour and hunting its prey through the walls.
- Hide2013
A ghost-hunter and a psychic investigate a haunted house in 1974 — and the ghost turns out to be a time traveller trapped in a pocket universe, with a monster that exists for a surprisingly tender reason.
- Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS2013
Salvagers breach the TARDIS and send it into lockdown — trapping Clara and the salvage crew in an ever-shifting, increasingly dangerous interior while the Doctor races to rescue them before the ship implodes.
- The Crimson Horror2013
In Victorian Yorkshire, Madame Vastra's gang investigate a closed community where people are turning red and dying — and the Doctor is found preserved in the same state, as a prisoner of the fanatical Mrs Gillyflower.
- Nightmare in Silver2013
An amusement park in the far future hides dormant Cybermen who are upgrading in real time to be unstoppable — and the Cyber Planner invades the Doctor's mind, forcing him to play chess for his own brain.
- The Name of the Doctor2013
The Great Intelligence leads the Doctor to his own grave on Trenzalore — and enters his timeline, rewriting every victory into a defeat. Clara must scatter herself across the Doctor's life to undo the damage.
2013 Specials
- The Night of the Doctor2013
The Eighth Doctor dies in the Time War and is revived by the Sisterhood of Karn, who offer him a potion to guide his regeneration. He chooses to become a warrior rather than a doctor — and the War Doctor is born.
- The Day of the Doctor2013
Three incarnations of the Doctor converge on the moment he burned Gallifrey to end the Time War — but together they find a third option. The 50th anniversary special that rewrote the mythology of the Time War.
- The Time of the Doctor2013
The Doctor spends centuries defending the town of Christmas on Trenzalore from every enemy he has ever faced, standing guard over a truth field broadcasting a question from the Time Lords. His final regeneration is granted by Gallifrey.
Series 8
- Deep Breath2014
A newly regenerated and deeply confused Doctor lands in Victorian London, where he and Clara must face a restaurant run by murderous clockwork droids harvesting human body parts — and Clara must decide whether she can trust this strange new man.
- Into the Dalek2014
The Doctor and Clara are miniaturised and sent inside a Dalek that has become good — a "rusty" Dalek that wants to destroy its own kind — to try to repair it and understand whether a good Dalek is even possible.
- Robot of Sherwood2014
Clara gets her wish and meets the legendary Robin Hood — but the Doctor is convinced he cannot be real. A medieval castle, robot knights, and a spaceship hidden beneath a dungeon tell a different story.
- Listen2014
The Doctor becomes obsessed with the question: what if no one is ever truly alone? His search for the perfect hider takes him and Clara to the end of the universe and deep into the Doctor's own childhood.
- Time Heist2014
The Doctor and Clara wake with their memories wiped, tasked with robbing the most secure bank in the universe, the Bank of Karabraxos. A mysterious Architect has assembled a team — but who is the Architect, and what does the terrifying Teller want?
- The Caretaker2014
The Doctor goes undercover as a caretaker at Coal Hill School to deal with a deadly Skovox Blitzer — and Clara must manage both her alien friend and her new boyfriend Danny Pink discovering her secret life.
- Kill the Moon2014
In 2049, the Doctor, Clara, and schoolgirl Courtney discover the Moon is an egg — and something inside is hatching. With the fate of the Earth and a new life in the balance, the Doctor steps back and forces humanity to make an impossible choice.
- Mummy on the Orient Express2014
Aboard a luxury space-liner styled as the Orient Express, an ancient mummy called the Foretold is killing passengers one by one. Only the person about to die can see it — and they have exactly 66 seconds to live.
- Flatline2014
The TARDIS is shrunk to doll-size by creatures from a two-dimensional universe, leaving Clara to act as the Doctor while investigating disappearances in Bristol. The Boneless are absorbing humans into the walls — and learning how to exist in three dimensions.
- In the Forest of the Night2014
London — and the entire world — wakes to find it has been swallowed overnight by a vast forest. The Doctor, Clara, and Danny guide a group of schoolchildren through the trees while the Earth prepares for a solar event and trees prove they have their own kind of memory.
- Dark Water / Death in Heaven2014
Danny Pink's sudden death sends Clara to extreme lengths. The Doctor discovers the Nethersphere — a digital afterlife run by Missy, who is revealed to be the Master regenerated. Missy's plan is to gift the Doctor an army of Cybermen converted from the dead.
- Last Christmas2014
The Doctor and Clara are stranded on an arctic base besieged by Dream Crabs — creatures that put you into a perfect dream while they devour your brain. Santa Claus may be their only hope.
Series 9
- The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar2015
The Doctor is summoned to face the dying Davros, who he abandoned as a child on a Dalek battlefield. The Master — as Missy — and Clara are apparently exterminated on Skaro. What did the Doctor do, and can a compassionate act change the Daleks forever?
- Under the Lake / Before the Flood2015
Ghosts are haunting an underwater base in Scotland — and the Doctor discovers they are transmitters for an alien signal. To understand how they came to be, the Doctor must travel back in time to the flood that created them, risking becoming a ghost himself.
- The Girl Who Died / The Woman Who Lived2015
The Doctor makes a Viking girl immortal to save her life — and returns centuries later to find Ashildr has become a hardened survivor calling herself "Me". Her immortality is a gift with a terrible cost: the loss of almost all human memory.
- The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion2015
A faction of Zygons breaks the ceasefire and begins replacing humans with their own kind. Clara is replaced by her Zygon double. The Doctor's resolution to the conflict — delivered in an extraordinary speech about the futility of war — becomes the episode's defining moment.
- Sleep No More2015
A found-footage episode set aboard a space station where Morpheus sleep-compression pods have spawned creatures made from accumulated eye-dust called Sandmen. The Doctor is disturbed by both the monsters and the footage itself.
- Face the Raven2015
Clara and the Doctor discover a hidden alien refugee camp in London, presided over by Ashildr. Clara's reckless bravery in taking a death sentence to save a friend costs her her life — meeting her fate face-to-face with the quantum-shade raven.
- Heaven Sent2015
Alone and grief-stricken after Clara's death, the Doctor is trapped in a mysterious castle pursued by the Veil — a creature that stops only when he confesses. He chips away at a diamond wall a billion years thick, one confession at a time, to escape his prison.
- Hell Bent2015
The Doctor returns to Gallifrey and overthrows Rassilon to extract Clara from the moment of her death. Fleeing to the end of the universe, he learns the identity of the Hybrid — and chooses to sacrifice his memories of Clara rather than endanger all of time.
- The Husbands of River Song2015
River Song recruits a stranger to help her steal a diamond from a tyrant's skull — not realising the stranger is the Doctor, wearing a face she doesn't recognise. A comic adventure that ends with a final night together at the Singing Towers of Darillium.
2016 Christmas Special
- The Return of Doctor Mysterio2016
The Doctor teams up with a superhero called The Ghost — a man who accidentally gained superpowers from an alien gemstone as a child — to stop the Harmony Shoal from transplanting alien brains into world leaders and triggering an invasion.
Series 10
- The Pilot2017
Bill Potts becomes the Doctor's student and then unwilling companion when her crush is possessed by a mysterious alien oil puddle that can mimic anything. The liquid pursues them across time and space, even through a Dalek warzone.
- Smile2017
The Doctor takes Bill to a gleaming city on a distant world, built and maintained by Vardies — microscopic robots that have interpreted grief as a plague and are now enforcing happiness on pain of death.
- Thin Ice2017
London, 1814: the last great Frost Fair. Under the Thames, a giant creature is being exploited for fuel by an aristocratic villain. The Doctor and Bill confront questions about the value of a life.
- Knock Knock2017
Bill and her university friends move into a grand old house run by a sinister Landlord. Students have been disappearing there for decades, and the walls are alive — infested with Dryads, alien insects that feed on wood and human flesh.
- Oxygen2017
In the future, oxygen is a commodity sold by the breath. On a space station where the suits have turned on their owners, the Doctor, Bill, and Nardole must survive with a dwindling air supply — at a permanent cost to the Doctor.
- Extremis / The Pyramid at the End of the World / The Lie of the Land2017
The Monks trilogy: the Doctor discovers the world is a simulation run by the Monks, who then invade and conquer Earth with humanity's consent, rewriting history. Bill must find a way to break their mental hold on the population and free the Doctor.
- Empress of Mars2017
Victorian soldiers on Mars discover a sleeping Ice Warrior army and awaken the Ice Queen. The Doctor must broker peace between 19th century British troops and the awakening Martian civilisation.
- The Eaters of Light2017
In Roman-era Scotland, the Doctor and Bill discover what happened to the lost Ninth Legion — and a stone circle that is a gateway used to keep inter-dimensional light-eating creatures at bay.
- World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls2017
On a vast colony ship fleeing a black hole, time runs differently at each end. Bill is shot and converted into one of the first Cybermen. The Master — in two incarnations — confronts the Doctor on a field of solar panels, and the Doctor falls.
- Twice Upon a Time2017
The Twelfth Doctor meets his first incarnation at the South Pole, both refusing to regenerate. A World War One British captain is caught between the moments of his death. The Doctor finally accepts his fate and regenerates — for the first time into a woman.
Series 11
- The Woman Who Fell to Earth2018
A newly regenerated Doctor crashes into a Sheffield tram and joins Yasmin Khan, Ryan Sinclair, and Graham O'Brien to stop the alien Stenza warrior Tim Shaw from claiming a human trophy. The adventure costs the companions dearly.
- The Ghost Monument2018
Stranded on the barren planet Desolation, the Doctor and companions follow two rival competitors in a deadly galactic race to reach the Ghost Monument — which turns out to be the TARDIS, phasing in and out of existence.
- Rosa2018
Montgomery, Alabama, 1955. The Doctor and friends must ensure that Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus — while a time-travelling white supremacist tries to prevent history from happening.
- Arachnids in the UK2018
Back in Sheffield, giant spiders are emerging from the walls of a luxury hotel. Yaz's family is caught up in the crisis, and an American property magnate is hiding a very inconvenient secret beneath his building.
- The Tsuranga Conundrum2018
Stranded on a medical transport ship heading for a space hospital, the Doctor and companions must protect the patients and crew from the Pting — a tiny but indestructible creature that devours all non-organic matter.
- Demons of the Punjab2018
Yaz travels back to the Partition of India in 1947 to witness her grandmother's first marriage — and discovers a secret that was never spoken of. Alien hunters circle, but their true purpose is not what the Doctor feared.
- Kerblam!2018
The Doctor receives a distress call via a fez delivered from Kerblam — the galaxy's biggest retailer. Inside the vast automated warehouse, workers are going missing and the delivery system itself seems to be asking for help.
- The Witchfinders2018
In 17th-century Lancashire, innocent women are being drowned as witches by the Pendle Witch Trial hysteria. The Doctor finds something genuinely monstrous lurking in the mud — and King James I makes an unexpected appearance.
- It Takes You Away2018
In a Norwegian fjord, a blind girl is alone in a boarded-up house claiming a monster outside has eaten her father. A mirror leads to the Antizone — and beyond that, a mirror universe where the dead can seemingly live again.
- The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos2018
The Doctor and friends answer distress calls on the planet of Ranskoor Av Kolos and discover Tim Shaw — the Stenza warrior from their first adventure — has enslaved the Ux, a near-omnipotent species, and is shrinking entire planets.
- Resolution2019
New Year's Day 2019: archaeologists accidentally revive a Dalek reconnaissance scout that was buried in three pieces across the globe. Separated from its casing, it possesses a human host and sets about rebuilding itself from Sheffield steel.
Series 12
- Spyfall2020
Spies worldwide are being attacked by alien beings who pass through solid matter. The Doctor's investigation leads to a tech mogul — and a shocking revelation: the Master is alive, has burned Gallifrey again, and has uncovered a terrible secret about the Doctor's past.
- Orphan 552020
A holiday resort on a supposedly safe planet turns deadly when its hidden Hopper viruses dissolve the dome. The ferocious Dregs outside — creatures that breathe carbon dioxide — turn out to be the terrifying evolved descendants of humanity.
- Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror2020
New York, 1903. Nikola Tesla is being targeted by the insectoid Skithra queen, who wants to abduct him to repair her stolen technology. The Doctor must protect both Tesla and Thomas Edison from an alien threat.
- Fugitive of the Judoon2020
Judoon enforcers lock down Gloucester searching for a fugitive. A tour guide named Ruth is hiding a secret that rewrites everything the Doctor thought she knew about her own past — introducing a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor.
- Praxeus2020
Across three continents, people and birds are being infected and crystallised by an alien pathogen called Praxeus — a disease that thrives in microplastics. The Doctor races to find a cure before the pathogen spreads to all of humanity.
- Can You Hear Me?2020
Nightmares are being stolen and an ancient god of fear is escaping a celestial prison to harvest human anxieties. The episode interweaves intimate explorations of the companions' mental health alongside a supernatural threat spanning time.
- The Haunting of Villa Diodati2020
Switzerland, 1816 — the night Mary Shelley conceived Frankenstein. A Cyberman is stalking the Villa Diodati, searching for something hidden there. The Doctor faces a genuine moral dilemma when the Lone Cyberman demands it.
- Ascension of the Daleks / The Timeless Children2020
A Dalek civil war rages while the Master traps the Doctor in the Matrix on Gallifrey to reveal the truth about the Timeless Child — the revelation that the Doctor is the mysterious foundation upon which all Time Lord regeneration ability was built.
- Revolution of the Daleks2021
New Year's Special 2021. While the Doctor is imprisoned in alien jail, Jack Robertson exploits a Dalek shell to sell security drones to the UK government. The real Daleks soon arrive to purge their inferior copies — and Ryan and Jack say farewell.
Series 13 / Flux
- Doctor Who: Flux2021
A universe-destroying phenomenon called the Flux is unleashed, and the Doctor discovers it is connected to her own origins and the Ravagers — servants of the being who created the Flux, Swarm. Sontarans, Daleks, and Cybermen converge on Earth while the Weeping Angels pursue Yaz and Dan through time.
- Eve of the Daleks2022
New Year's Special 2022. A storage unit, a time loop, and an Executioner Dalek. Sarah and Nick are trapped in a shrinking loop with the Doctor, Yaz, and Dan — each cycle shorter than the last, the Dalek closing in.
- Legend of the Sea Devils2022
19th-century China: the Doctor and Yaz encounter the Sea Devils, aquatic cousins of the Silurians, led by a warlord who seeks a legendary treasure that could reshape the seas.
- The Power of the Doctor2022
The Centenary Special. The Master allies with the Daleks and Cybermen to force the Doctor to regenerate into him — becoming the Doctor himself. Past companions return as the Thirteenth Doctor fights to reclaim her identity in her final stand.
60th Anniversary Specials
- The Star Beast2023
David Tennant returns as a new Fourteenth Doctor — the same face, wearing a previous face for a reason yet unknown. He reunites with Donna Noble in London, where a cute alien called the Beep the Meep has crash-landed and the Wrarth Warriors are in pursuit. Donna's family holds the key.
- Wild Blue Yonder2023
At the edge of the universe on an abandoned spaceship, the Doctor and Donna are stalked by Not-Things — shapeshifting entities that perfectly mimic them and are slowly learning what it means to be human. A deeply unsettling two-hander.
- The Giggle2023
The Toymaker — a god-like entity of games and chaos — has infected humanity with a maddening signal. He challenges the Doctor to a game, and when the Doctor is shot, something unprecedented happens: a bi-generation, splitting into two Doctors simultaneously. The Fourteenth retires; the Fifteenth is born.
Series 1 (2024)
- The Church on Ruby Road2023
Christmas 2023: the Fifteenth Doctor meets Ruby Sunday, a young woman plagued by a string of coincidences — all engineered by goblins who feast on luck. The Doctor and Ruby bond over their shared unknown origins as he saves her from being consumed.
- Space Babies2024
The Doctor takes Ruby on her first trip in the TARDIS — to a space station populated entirely by babies whose parents were evacuated and never returned. A creature called the Bogeyman lurks in the lower decks.
- The Devil's Chord2024
Abbey Road Studios, 1963. The Doctor and Ruby arrive to witness the Beatles recording only to find that all music has been drained from the world by Maestro — a child of the Toymaker who feeds on musical energy.
- Boom2024
The Doctor is trapped on a landmine on a war-ravaged planet — and if he lifts his foot, the bomb detonates. An episode that barely moves, relying entirely on dialogue as the Doctor confronts a war being fought by automated weapons systems with profit motives.
- 73 Yards2024
Ruby finds herself stranded in rural Wales with the Doctor vanished — and a mysterious woman following her at a distance of exactly 73 yards. Anyone Ruby sends to speak to the woman returns in terror and flees. Ruby must live an entire life to understand what happened.
- Dot and Bubble2024
The privileged residents of Finetime live inside personalised media bubbles, never looking away from their screens. Giant slugs are eating them and they cannot perceive the threat. The episode ends on a deliberate, uncomfortable refusal.
- Rogue2024
A Regency-era masquerade ball where alien Chuldur are playing deadly cosplay — taking humans' faces and killing them. The Doctor meets Rogue, a dashing bounty hunter, in an episode with deep romantic overtones and a heartbreaking goodbye.
- The Legend of Ruby Sunday / Empire of Death2024
The mystery of Ruby Sunday's mother reaches its climax as Sutekh — an ancient god of death who has been hiding on the TARDIS — is unleashed and kills all life in the universe. The identity of Ruby's mother turns out to hold the key to defeating a god.
- Joy to the World2024
Christmas 2024. The Doctor arrives at a hotel in the present day where Joy — a harried traveller checking in alone at Christmas — accidentally opens a portal to the Time Hotel and is swept away. The Doctor must navigate the hotel's fractured timelines to bring her home.